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unˈbuilt, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b, 8 c: cf. prec.]
1. Not (yet) built or erected.
1455–6Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 290 Yf yt be unbylyt aftyr the fyrst yere..than the Mayre..shold require hym to repeyre hit. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 74 Theare picht he his kingdoom, for then Troy cittye was vnbuylt, And castels stood not. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. iv. 375 Tuisco, Gomer's son, from unbuilt Babel brought His people to that place. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (ed. 2) 5 The Rhodian Colossus had been lost;..the Egyptian Pyramids unbuilt. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. iv. 112 As I have given some unbuilt designs of modern architects.
b. Made without building.
1882J. Parker Apost. Life I. 48 Elijah hid himself in an unbuilt chamber in the rock.
2. Of land: Not occupied with buildings; not built on or upon.
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 607 All which he pulled downe,..leauing the ground vnbuilt for a Cemitery or Churchyard. 1819in Picton L'pool Munic Rec. (1886) II. 378 Such part of their unbuilt land as will be sufficient for a Public Market. 1855[J. R. Leifchild] Cornwall 66 Scarcely in any other district so open and unbuilt on, would you find the agriculturist so completely subdued. 1893A. Cawston Street Improv. London 124 In the as yet unbuilt parts grounds are to be reserved. |